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SYMPTOMSWhen you use version 2.0 of the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) drivers to delete database tables, you may receive the following error message:
CAUSEThe ODBC drivers listed below will return the above error message if the first character of a table's name is a number (for example, "1TABLE"): Microsoft Btrieve DriverThese drivers are shipped with the Microsoft ODBC Desktop Database Drivers Kit. RESOLUTIONThis error is caused by the way the DROP TABLE statement is created in Microsoft Query. For example, if you are using the Microsoft dBASE ODBC version 2.0 driver to delete a table called "1TABLE.DBF" in the C:\TEST directory, the following SQL statement is created by Microsoft Query and used to drop the table:
NOTE: This select statement will cause the same error if you use it in the
SQLExecQuery function in a Visual Basic for Applications macro.This will cause the error stated above, unless you replace the backslash immediately before the table name with a period as shown below:
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft ODBC Desktop Database Drivers Kit version 2.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available. REFERENCESFor additional information, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q124319 BUG: Syntax Error When Using Qualified Table Name with Quotes Additional query words: 2.00 Structured Query Language 5.00c
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